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ovoid, 4-6 x 2-3£ /x, hyaline, apical or filiform, septulate, hyaline, 
basidia 50-60 x 3-3-| p long. 
On dung. Victoria. W. Australia. 
1985. Stilbum formicarum. Che. Mass. <} Grev. xvm., 8. 
Stems elongated, slender (5-8 m.m. long), black, flexuous, 
slightly incrassated below ; capitulnm obovate, rosy ; conidia 
elliptic, 10 x 3 fi, hyaline. 
On dead ants. Victoria. (Fig. 323.) 
1986. Stilbum caninum. Ckc. § Mass. Grev. xx., 36. 
Gregarious, clavate or subspathulate, flesh-coloured (2-3 in. high), 
capitulum darker, continuous with the smooth stem. Conidia 
ellipsoid, continuous, hyaline, 5x3^. 
On dog’s dung. Victoria. 
Stem sometimes furcate. Larger, and more robust than S. 
ftmetarium, with smaller conidia. 
1987. Stilbum corallinum. Che. tj- Mass. Grev. xix., 91. 
Ctespitose, flesh-coloured, stems attenuated upwards, branched 
with short branches, mealy ; capitulum hemispherical, or rather 
irregular, subglobose, orange-red. Conidia elliptical, continuous, 
hyaline (5x2 p). 
On bark. Victoria. 
1988. Stilbum cinnabarinum. Mont. FI. Cub. 368, t. 11, f. 
3. Sacc. Syll. 2705. 
Gregarious, flesh-coloured ; capitulum convex-hemispherical, 
vermilion-red ; stem short, mealy ; conidia oblong = conidia of 
Sphcerostilbe. 
On bark. Queensland. 
Genus 32. FILACB.E. Fries. 
Stroma stipitate, capitate ; capitulum subglobose or depressed, 
composed below of branched, flexuous, radiating threads, membra- 
naceous above, fragile, and falling away. Conidia simple, globular, 
collected in a peripherical compact stratum. 
1989. Filacre divisa. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 271. Sacc. Syll. 
2750. 
Capitulum globose, clay-coloured ; stem divided, brownish ; 
byphas straight ; conidia 5-6 p diam., subglobose, nucleate. 
On bark. Tasmania. (Fig. 324.). 
1990. Filacre Fetersii. B. Sf C. Ann. Nat. Hist. No. 824. 
Sacc. Syll. 2752. 
Stem short, white, 4 m.m. high, capitulum rather large, 2-4 
m.m. diam., hyphaj nearly straight, anastomosing, branches 
tortuous ; conidia globose, 5 p diam., sessile, tawny. 
On trunks. N.S.Wales. 
